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The Codex
Author | : Douglas Preston |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2011-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0330467034 |
Greetings from the dead,' declares Maxwell Broadbent in the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems and artefacts before vanishing - along with his entire collection - from his mansion in New Mexico. As a final challenge to his three sons, Broadbent has buried himself and his treasure somewhere in the world, hidden away like an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. If the sons wish to claim their fabulous inheritance, they must find their father's carefully concealed tomb. The race is on, but among the treasures is an ancient Mayan codex that may hold a secret far more important than the wealth of riches around it, and the brothers aren't the only ones in pursuit.
The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts
Author | : Maarten Jansen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2010-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004193588 |
This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico.
Cultural Techniques
Author | : Bernhard Siegert |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0823263770 |
In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium’s individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and performance, matter and form, human and nonhuman, sign and channel, the symbolic and the real are still in the process of becoming. The result is to turn ontology into a domain of all that is meant in German by the word Kultur. Cultural techniques comprise not only self-referential symbolic practices like reading, writing, counting, or image-making. The analysis of artifacts as cultural techniques emphasizes their ontological status as “in-betweens,” shifting from firstorder to second-order techniques, from the technical to the artistic, from object to sign, from the natural to the cultural, from the operational to the representational. Cultural Techniques ranges from seafaring, drafting, and eating to the production of the sign-signaldistinction in old and new media, to the reproduction of anthropological difference, to the study of trompe-l’oeils, grids, registers, and doors. Throughout, Siegert addresses fundamental questions of how ontological distinctions can be replaced by chains of operations that process those alleged ontological distinctions within the ontic. Grounding posthumanist theory both historically and technically, this book opens up a crucial dialogue between new German media theory and American postcybernetic discourses.
The Expanse Roleplaying Game
Author | : Steve Kenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-05-14 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9781934547977 |
"The Expanse created by James S.A. Corey."
Tales of Illyria
Author | : Mikal Hanson |
Publisher | : Little Killerz |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2014-03-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Codex Vasena is a supplement for the Tales of Illyria video game series. Codex Vasena details the desert kingdom of north east Illyria. Subjects covered are religion, bestiary, magic, the wall, geography, religion and culture.
The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity
Author | : Aby Warburg |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780892365371 |
A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.
New Perspectives on 2 Enoch
Author | : Andrei Orlov |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2012-05-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004230149 |
New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only presents a collection of papers from the fifth conference of the Enoch Seminar. The conference re-examines 2 Enoch, an early Jewish apocalyptic text previously known to scholars only in its Slavonic translation, in light of recently identified Coptic fragments. This approach helps to advance the understanding of many key issues of this enigmatic and less explored Enochic text. One of the important methodological lessons of the current volume lies in the recognition that the Adamic and Melchizedek traditions, the mediatorial currents which play an important role in the apocalypse, are central for understanding the symbolic universe of the text. The volume also contains the recently identified Coptic fragments of 2 Enoch, introduced to scholars for the first time during the conference.
Western Plainchant
Author | : David Hiley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780198165729 |
Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.